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by vlaaad 1179 days ago
So Musk was outed from OpenAI and is now salty? Or are they trying to build a competitor and are falling behind and want OpenAI to get a break so they can catch up? In either way, the ethics talk is total bullshit.
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Was thinking the same thing. Just a few days ago Elon was criticizing ChatGPT to be too "woke" which basically means it's careful to not push any hot buttons and that it needs to be less politically correct all the time.

It's funny because the other day I asked ChatGPT that the only thing that holds back AI tech. is regulatory issues. Of course it denied cuz it didn't know any better, but when GPT-4 paper came out, this was explicitly mentioned, that they were solely working on safety issues for months before release.

> So Musk was outed from OpenAI and is now salty?

Outed? AFAIK he quit.

Back then he said it was because of "conflict of interest" with Tesla. But that wasn't entirely true, he wanted to be the boss and run the company. Altman said no. [citation needed]
That's my speculation. If I was Musk, I wouldn't voluntarily quit OpenAI.
> That's my speculation. If I was Musk, I wouldn't voluntarily quit OpenAI.

In hindsight. Back in 2018 it wasn’t at all obvious they would be in the position they are today. Google released the Transformer paper just a year before and were commonly seen as being in the lead.